Jinyi champion

Chapter 232 Good Boys Never Lie

"Another one died, change me, change me!"

"Stand aside, I haven't played enough yet!"

In the afternoon, the academy.

Zhu Hao sat on a small bench in the corner of the yard, basking in the sun and reading a book. The sound of Jinghong reading came from the classroom. As for Zhu San, Zhu Si and Lu Bing, who were completing the "killing game" in the sun, Zhu Hao gave them magnifying glass focusing sunlight on roasted ants.

Children are not only playful, but also imaginative.

Zhu Hao just told them that the convex lens can gather light, and then the three children began to point the mirror at the ants in the yard who were moving to store winter food, and from time to time there could be sounds like they had discovered a new continent.

Yuan Zonggao hasn't appeared yet, Tang Yin came to the school in the morning and then left, it seems that a drastic change is brewing in the palace.

"Why don't you change me? How much time have you been playing? If you don't give it to me again... I will dismantle your telescope, and there is also a slice on it."

Zhu San was having a good time at first, but after the things fell into her younger brother's hands, they never returned to her hands. In desperation, he was already threatening to tear down his younger brother's binoculars.

Zhu Si looked smug: "I know you might steal my precious treasure, and I hid it long ago. If you have the ability to find it, I don't believe you can find it."

"Shameless, really shameless!"

Zhu San said angrily.

Zhu Si handed the magnifying glass to Lu Bing: "Come and play, don't give it to this crazy woman!"

"Who are you calling crazy woman?"

"What's wrong with scolding you? You scolded me for being a dwarf yesterday... scolding you is always polite!" Zhu Si looked at odds with his sister.

Lu Bing quickly took the opportunity to level the magnifying glass and focus the sunlight to a point, and then an unlucky ant was tracked by the strong light... After struggling a few times, he died.

"Yeah, it's fun."

Lu Bing looked proud.

But in the next second, the magnifying glass was snatched by Zhu San.

There was another burst of madness.

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The hustle and bustle in the yard didn't seem to have much to do with Zhu Hao. He didn't like those boring games. The process of growing up with Zhu Si was so boring, but he had to endure it.

Now that I have become a child through time travel, I can only enjoy suffering, otherwise what can I do after leaving the palace?
"Mr. Yuan is here!"

Zhu Si said something.

Zhu San held up the magnifying glass so high that her younger brother couldn't even jump up. She looked smug: "Who are you kidding? I won't be fooled."

Unexpectedly, Yuan Zonggao really came.

Yuan Zonggao did not bring any entourage, but stood at the gate of the academy, looking at the children playing in the courtyard with a smile, his eyes full of kindness.

"Mr. Yuan."

Although the children were afraid of seeing Yuan Zonggao, they still had the courtesy they should have, and they all went over to salute in a proper manner.

Yuan Zonggao smiled and pressed his hands: "Okay, it's getting late, it's time to go in and study. Today, I want to test your knowledge... I won't see you in half a year, let's see how far your studies have progressed."

"Yes!"

The children were about to walk into the classroom, Yuan Zonggao pointed to Zhu Hao: "Zhu Hao is a full head taller than last year, right? You stay here first, the old man will test you alone."

Exam alone?

Zhu Hao felt that Yuan Zonggao's arrival was not kind.

If it was really an examination of the school's children's knowledge, why should Mr. Tang Yin be brought in? Now that Yuan Zonggao showed up alone, the purpose is very interesting.

"gentlemen."

Zhu Hao stayed and made a respectful listening certificate.

When Zhu San and the others entered the classroom, they were still fighting over the ownership of the magnifying glass, and in the end they were quickly snatched away by Zhu San's sharp hands.

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"Zhu Hao, I heard that you will take the county examination next year?" Yuan Zonggao asked with a smile.

Zhu Hao nodded.

I thought that Yuan Zonggao would still be the same as before, beating around the bush first to dissuade others... Talking to him can never get straight to the point.

Yuan Zonggao said: "Then how are you preparing for the exam?"

Zhu Hao gave an overview of his study progress, and then explained his recent preparation for the exam.

"...I have been writing articles for Mr. Lu to check. In addition, I have been reading books other than the Four Books and Five Classics recently. I have read a lot of classics and history collections. Mr. Lu said that this will increase your experience and be very helpful for taking the imperial examination."

"Ah."

Yuan Zonggao nodded, "Mr. Lu is right to teach you to read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, but in fact, the four-book essay is the most important thing in the Tongsheng exam. Often the quality of the four-book essay directly determines whether a person is on the list." ...you still need to write more four-hand essays."

This is a kind reminder, and it can be regarded as the experience of those who have experienced it.

Yuan Zonggao seemed to guide Zhu Hao seriously, but what he said was the most simple truth. Until the general examination, including the rural examination, the four scriptures are the key to success or failure, but do you need to say this?
"I'll give you a few questions later. You can write with your heart. You don't need to be too fast. You can submit one article a day. In addition... read the historical volumes, use the past to discuss the present and use history as a mirror, and then read the model essays."

Zhu Hao saluted respectfully, he knew that Yuan Zonggao would get to the point next.

as predicted.

Just when Zhu Hao was about to leave and go back to the classroom, Yuan Zonggao said: "Zhu Hao, I heard that the imperial court bought a batch of mirrors that can see things in the distance from the local area...the thing called a telescope, did you buy it from you? "

Zhu Hao nodded: "Yes."

As Zhu Hao expected, after Yuan Zonggao returned to the palace, he dropped a stone in the seemingly calm pool of water, and first of all he singled out the purchase of telescopes by the palace.

It's not easy to ask Zhang Zuo, so go directly to Zhu Hao...

The target is accurate.

"The old man doesn't ask where you learned how to make telescopes, but only asks your cost... I heard that the palace gave your family two thousand taels of silver at a time to make a hundred? That is to say, the cost of a telescope is as high as twenty taels?" After Yuan Zonggao finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Hao with piercing eyes.

I don't care how you built the telescope. Even if I ask you, you may not say it. After all, it is your family's business to make money.

I don't covet.

But my goal is to find out the problems in the accounts from the telescope business, and use this as a breakthrough to complete my three fires of returning to the palace to re-execute the long history.

"The cost is twenty taels, but my family only took fifteen taels of it. For each telescope, five taels of silver are used for copper pipes and decorations, and maybe some are used for transportation... The five hundred taels of silver came directly from It was transferred from the account without my hand."

Zhu Hao didn't hide anything.

Yuan Zonggao didn't expect Zhu Hao to be so "honest" when speaking crisply.

"Ha ha."

Yuan Zonggao thought it was so difficult, but before he asked carefully, Zhu Hao actually told the whole story?
"Wouldn't the fifteen taels of silver be too high? As far as I know, excluding the outer body of the telescope, what your family supplies is just two glass lenses, one in front and one in back."

Yuan Zonggao began to count small accounts.

Zhu Hao's answer was still very straightforward: "Yuan Changshi, if you understand the structure of the telescope, you can probably perceive that the manufacturing process of the glass lens of the telescope is very delicate, and the waste rate is extremely high...that is to say, making a thousand ordinary Glass lenses may not have a suitable telescope lens. Therefore, the final lens cost should not be measured by the price of only one lens.”

Zhu Hao also said this to Zhang Zuo.

Zhang Zuo took advantage of Zhu Hao, so he didn't go into details, but Yuan Zonggao just wanted to make a fuss about this matter, would he accept such an argument?

"is it?"

Yuan Zonggao squinted his eyes, and stared at Zhu Hao with sharp eyes, with a scheming look, as if he wanted to see through Zhu Hao completely.

Zhu Haodao: "Actually, I didn't set the price, but I have learned from the past."

"Ok?"

Yuan Zonggao was taken aback.

He did not expect this.

You kid makes telescopes, even if you have never heard of that thing before, but it’s not like twenty-one pairs, right?Those two lenses are worth more than gold. If you sell colored glaze as gold, how can I not settle accounts with you?

You actually tell me that there is a precedent?
"It's like this. The predecessor of the telescope was glass mirrors and glasses. My family did business with a Huguang local official named Su Xigui. The price we supplied to him was fifteen taels of silver for a pair of glasses, which also consisted of two lenses. , and the lenses I used on the telescope are larger and of better quality... The cost of fifteen taels of silver was negotiated after many considerations, and it has been traded many times. There is no doubt that if Yuan Changshi doesn't believe it, he can send someone Go ask Dongzhu Su."

Zhu Hao had already prepared.

I set a price for something, and if I set a high price, even if you didn't bother me at the time, you may regret it later.

Then I need to keep the price consistent. I can't say that the price I sell to you is the same price, and the price I sell to others is different.

People who can buy my "epoch-making products" are either rich or expensive, and the price definition of buying and selling is just like dividing spoils, not worrying about scarcity but inequality.

Do you think it's my first day to do business?

"The merchant surnamed Su you mentioned is the brother-in-law of Huguang Huang Fantai?"

Yuan Zonggao did not expect this.

The price of the telescope, there is actually a horizontal comparison?

Zhu Hao nodded: "Su Dongzhu has been in the glazed lens business with us for more than half a year. I have some leftover lenses, so I assembled them. When I gave them to the prince to play, King Xing happened to notice them. thing."

Yuan Zonggao was helpless.

Yuan Zonggao had a general understanding of the ins and outs of the telescope as a tribute, and learned that it was indeed accidental. If it is said that Zhu Hao deliberately planned to use the telescope as a tribute for the court to purchase...

That would be too nonsense!

King Xing's idea was just a temporary idea. No one could have predicted that the imperial court would approve and issue a decree to allocate funds.

"The old man turned around and asked that Su Dongzhu to see if it was true!" Yuan Zonggao looked cautious.

He was going to compare Zhang Zuo's and Zhu Hao's armies with the issue of cost, but Zhu Hao actually took out two objects for comparison, which made him feel that he was too powerful to use.

But Yuan Zonggao still has a back hand: "Since the cost of the lens is fifteen taels, then the other five taels...why do you want to hand it over to Zhang Fengzheng? Did you propose it on your own initiative, or did he propose it?"

Zhu Hao gave the answer directly.

"Although Zhang Fengzheng didn't take the initiative, he made a hint, and I didn't want to take advantage of the palace in this business, so I returned the five hundred taels of silver early."

(End of this chapter)